Yes, Samsung has divorced symbian. Samsung had already dropped strong hints they would not support this generation of Symbian smartphones, and has now confirmed the news, far behind a similar announcement from Sony Ericsson, and in the same week that the Korean giant said it would launch Windows Phone 7 phones before the end of the year
Last week Sony Ericsson was also reported to stop developing smartphones powered by Symbian OS.
Nokia, which is still the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, is now the only top-tier handset manufacturer supporting Symbian operating system.
Like his Korean compatriot LG, Samsung will now focus all its efforts in the emerging smartphone market based on the relatively new Android and WP7, leaving Nokia (and other Japanese vendors) as supporters of the open source Symbian reworked ^ 3. Samsung is also investing heavily in its home grown platform, Bada.
Samsung said it would stop supporting Symbian at the end of this year, in a note on the website of its development program, Samsung Mobile Innovator. Innovator said " we will leave your Symbian support service on December 31, 2010 .... Registration and certification of Symbian applications for warehouse applications Samsung will cease."